Microplastics pollution (IMAGE)
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Researchers made a flow tank with fine sand and vertical plastic tubes (green dots) simulating mangrove roots. They pumped plastic particles and found where they landed using ultraviolet light. Researchers focused on determining how extracellular polymeric substances, or EPS, affected the transport of microparticles, including microplastics. The bottom row shows the microplastic distribution (orange dots) under different EPS concentrations.
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Courtesy of Hyoungchul Park and Heidi Nepf
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